TechTakes @awful.systems David Gerard @awful.systems 1w ago

Shock as OpenAI’s Media Manager opt-out tool turns out to be vaporware

pivot-to-ai.com Shock as OpenAI’s Media Manager opt-out tool turns out to be vaporware

After an avalanche of lawsuits over scraping everyone’s copyrighted works for their LLMs to regurgitate, OpenAI promised in May 2024 to develop a “Media Manager” tool to let creators opt their work…

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A reminder, they started with books3, a dataset that was always very honest that it was entirely pirated material from the private torrent tracker Bibliotik.

They always knew, they never had any intention to pay a dime to any of the creatives they stole from.

When you steal big enough, they let you do it and say it's just business. When you steal small potatoes like The Pirate Bay, they lock you up.
- "Yes judge I downloaded Shrek 2 to train my neural net for my startup"
  
  "The name of my neural net? Sailor Sega Saturn's brain I guess..."
  
  "Oh my startup? That's what I call trying to get out of bed in the morning!"
  
  ...and then you start singing All Star by Smash Mouth at the judge.
I'm so utterly shocked, words can't describe it.
“”””””””””””shock””””””””””””
Shock?

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